welsonjs/README.md

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welsonjs

WelsonJS - Build a Windows app on the Windows built-in JavaScript engine.

Now, You can build an Windows desktop app with JavaScript, TypeScript, ReScript, and HTML/CSS on Windows built-in ECMAScript engine.

WelsonJS = Windows + Electron-like + Javascript(JS) + Your contribution

Dual license notice: The default license for this project is GPL 3.0. However, if the GPL 3.0 license is not compatible with Microsoft products, it is subject to the MS-RL license.

I presented this project in the open-source contest in the Republic of Korea in November 2023.

Structure

Structure

Specifications

Included libraries

  • lib/std (Standard library)
  • lib/system (System library)
  • lib/base64 (BASE64 Encode and Decode)
  • lib/db (Database interface)
  • lib/file (File I/O interface)
  • lib/http (HTTP interface)
  • lib/json (JSON Encode and Decode)
  • lib/registry (Windows Registry interface)
  • lib/security (Security Policy interface)
  • lib/sendmail (Sendmail interface with 3rdparty)
  • lib/shell (Command Prompt interface)
  • lib/timer (setTimeout polyfills)
  • lib/powershell (Windows Powershell interface)
  • lib/service (Windows Service interface)
  • lib/oldbrowser (ES5/ES6, HTML/JS/CSS compatibility)
  • lib/uri (URI scheme interface)
  • lib/winlibs (Windows DLL(Dynamic-link library) interface)
  • lib/autohotkey (AutoHotkey interface)
  • lib/autoit (AutoIt3/AutoItX interface)
  • lib/shadowsocks (Shadowsocks interface)
  • lib/excel (Microsoft Excel interface)
  • lib/vbscript (VBScript interface)
  • lib/wintap (Windows-TAP interface)
  • lib/tun2socks (TUN2SOCKS interface)
  • lib/hosts (Hosts file interface)
  • lib/gtk (GTK/GladeXML server GUI interface)
  • lib/chrome (Chrome Web Browser Debugging interface)
  • lib/toolkit (WelsonJS.Toolkit native component)
  • lib/pipe-ipc (PIPE-based IPC(Inter-Process Communication) implementation)

Make your own sayhello example

1. Write a file lib/sayhello.js

exports.VERSIONINFO = "SayHello Library (sayhello.js) version 0.1
exports.global = global;
exports.require = global.require;

exports.say = function() {
    console.log("hello");
}

2. Write a file sayhello.js

var SayHello = require("lib/sayhello");

function main() {
    console.log("calling say()");
    SayHello.say();
    console.log("ended say()");
}

exports.main = main;

3. Execute file on the command prompt

C:\Users\John\Documents\GitHub\welsonjs> cscript app.js sayhello
calling say()
hello
ended say()

How to make your own setup file

  • Please check setup.iss file it could be compile with Inno Setup

Screenshots

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Thanks!

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Contact me

If you have any inquiries regarding this project or if you are interested in becoming a partner, please don't hesitate to contact us. Particularly, for those using this project for website quality improvement automation, technical support will be exclusively available to partners.